He ran through the stage, slightly worried.

The drones he had just blown passed… they were… odd, to say the least.

And the walls… his shots kept bouncing off of them. Of course, so did he when he had the occasion to run into them. What was with this place?

He finally came upon the fighting arena. Like the rest of the level, the room was well padded and everything had a pinkish sheen to it.

"What sort of guy am I fighting, here?" Rock wondered aloud.

Suddenly, the pink lighting dimmed and from… somewhere, a large ball bounced around the room. Rock ducked down to avoid getting hit. Then the ball unfurled, showing him to be a Robot Master.

The Robot Master struck a pose. "I am…. RUBBER MAN!"

There was a snort.

"Er, sorry." Rock said. Jeez, but the guy sounded weird. "Broke character. Errr… so, uh… What do you do?"

He was taken by surprise when Rubber suddenly squealed at him. "Oh, you're so /adorable/!"

"Uh… huh?"

"Oh, I could just eat you /all/ /night/ /LONG/!"

"Er, wouldn't that hurt?"

Rubber purred. "I could make it feel good~"

"Man, what a freak…"

"And I /love/ getting freaky." He grinned. "Don't you?"

Rock backed away, starting to become frightened. "Not… really."

"I could make you, sugar."

"Er, you don't have to trouble yourself on my account."

He squealed again. "You're so /cute/! Oh, I /love/ it!"

"Um, thank you?"

"Oh, really," Rubber said, flicking his wrist, "you're too modest, honey." Rock blanched as he realized the other was… lisping.

What the hell was Wily smoking when he made this guy??

"Yeah, well…" he couldn't think of anything else to say, so he just backed up, keeping his buster trained on the Robot Master.

Rubber just giggled. "Oh, do you want to get kinky? Role-play that you're the mean, assertive bad guy?" He put a wrist dramatically to his helmet. "Oh! Please don't /hurt/ me, you cute, hot piece of ass!"

Rock's face went up in flames. "WHAT!?!"

He continued with his melodrama. "If you /must/ force me to…" he began to peel off his armor, all the while humming a song that belonged on a bad prono soundtrack.

"Wh-wh-wh-wh-what do you think you're doing!?"

"Just getting ready, cutie." Rubber said, walking towards Rock. Or trying to, anyway. Every step he took, he paused to pose.

"You stay away from me!"

"Oh, I can't keep my hands /off/ you!"

Rubber pounced!

Rock shrieked and fired out randomly. He was surprised when something fell heavily at his feet.

"Oh…" Rubber said, smoldering slightly. "But you are a /naughty/ boy…"

Rock didn't even wait to get his new power. He slapped on his com link. "Dr. Light! Get me out of here!!"

Back at the lab, Rock stomped up to the doctor.

"Dr. Light, I'll tell you right now, if the rest of these Robot Masters are like the last one, get Blues to do it."

"What a peculiar weapon…" Light said. "Ah, Rock! Here is your new special power! The Rubber Invasion!"

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWW!!!"

The doctor looked in surprise at Rock's form rapidly shrinking in the distance. "Wonder what's so wrong with him?"



Moral: Never let me eat 60g of lemon drops in one day and then talk to Cheri oO;;